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Chapter

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Learning
Objectives
1. Differentiate between the five basic types of system units.
2. Describe system boards, including sockets, slots, and bus lines.
3. Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor
chips and specialty processors.
4. Compare different types of computer memory including RAM,
ROM, and flash memory.
5. Explain expansion slots and cards.
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6. Describe bus lines, bus widths, and expansion buses.


7. Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.
8. Identify power supplies for desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile
devices.
9.
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Introduction

• Speed, capacity, and flexibility


determine the power of personal
computers.
• Knowledge of a computer’s power allows
you to make good buying decisions and to
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determine if your current system will run


new applications.
• Competent end users need to understand
the functionality of the basic components
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of the system unit


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System Unit

System Chassis
• Container that houses most of the electronic
components that make up a computer
system
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System Unit
• Contains system’s electronic components
and selected secondary storage devices
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System Unit Types

1. Desktops
Sunit: In a separate case
Tower Units (Desktop)
All-in-Ones (Apple)
All components including monitor

2. Laptops
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Portable and much smaller


Sunit: Housed with secondary storage +
input device
Ultrabooks – laptop and tablet in one
Two in one laptop
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Gaming laptop – high end graphics


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System Unit Types cont.

3. Tablets
Mini tablet
Sunit: behind the monitor
4. Smartphone
Most popular device – handheld computer
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Extend the capabilities of cell phones


SUnit: Behind the display screen
5. Wearables
Contain embedded computers on a chip
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Sunit: Behind the device


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Components

• Although all devices


come in many
shapes and sizes
they have
similarities such as
• System boards
• Microprocessors
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• Memory
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System Board

System board or mainboard or


motherboard controls
communication for the entire
computer system
• All components and devices
connect to the system
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board
• Acts as data path and traffic
monitor
• Allows various components to
communicate efficiently with one
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another
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Sockets and
Chips
The system board contains a
variety of electronic
components
• Sockets – the
connection point for
chips
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• Chips
• Tiny circuit boards
etched onto squares of
silicon
• Also called silicon chip,
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semiconductor, or
integrated circuit
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Slots and Bus Lines

Additional system board components:


• Slots
• Provide a connection point for specialized cards or circuit boards
• Provide expansion capabilities for the computer
• Bus lines
• Connecting lines that provide pathways to support
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communication among electronic components


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Microprocessor

• Central Processing Unit (CPU) or Processor


• Contained on a single chip call a
Microprocessor
• Brains of the computer
• Two Basic Components of the CPU
• Control unit
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• Tells the computer system how to carry out a


program’s instruction

• Directs and coordinates most of the operations


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• Arithmetic-logic unit (ALU)


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• Performs arithmetic and logical operations
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Microprocessor

List out two leading manufacturers of personal


computer processor chips:
1. ??
2. ??
Relationship between Memory,
Processor, Storage, Input andOutput
Devices
• When user starts a program, its
instruction transfer from a storage
device to memory.
• Data needed by programs enters
memory from either an input device or
a storage device.
• The control unit interprets and
executes instructions in memory, and
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the ALU performs calculations on the


data in memory.
• Resulting information is stored in
memory, from which it can be sent to
an output device or a storage device
for future access as needed.
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Processor Machine
Cycle
For every instruction, a processor repeats a set of four basic
operations, which comprise a machine cycle.
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Microprocessor Chips

• Chip processing capacities are expressed in


word size
• A Word is the number of bits that can be accessed
at one time by the CPU: 16, 32 or 64
• The more bits in a word, the more data a computer
can process at one time. (How much?)
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• Chip processing speed (Clock Speed)


• Processing speed or the number of times the CPU
fetches and processes data or instructions in a
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second. (How fast)


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Microprocessor Chips

• The processor relies on the system clock to


control the timing of all computer operations

• The pace (rate) of the system clock is called


the clock speed, number of ticks per second
and is measured in gigahertz (GHz)
1 GHz = one billion ticks per second
2 GHz = ?
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3 GHz = ?

• The faster the clock speed, the more


instructions the processor can execute per
second
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Multicore Chips

• Multicore Processors
• Two or more separate and independent CPUs within a
system unit
• Quad-core supports 4 core processes
• To be effective - Parallel Processing
• Computer’s ability to divide tasks into parts
that can be distributed across each core
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• Windows 8 and Mac OS X support parallel processing


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Specialty Processors

• Coprocessors
• Designed to improve specific computing operations
• Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) / Graphics
coprocessors
• Designed to handle a variety of specialized tasks and
fast processing
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• 3D images
• Encrypting data
• Standard features in gaming computers
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Microprocessor

Name the two components of microprocessor.


a. ??
b. ??
Memory

• Holding area for data, instructions, and


information
• Contained on chips connected to the system
board
• Reside on a memory module and are inserted into
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memory slots
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Memory

• Three well-known memory chips:


• RAM
• Random Access Memory Volatile (Temporary)
• Cache
• Virtual
• ROM Non volatile (Permanent)
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• Read Only Memory


• Flash Memory
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Memory
• The system unit contains two types of
memory:

Volatile Non volatile


memory memory
Loses its contents
Does not lose contents
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when power is
turned off when power is removed
Example includes Examples include
RAM, cache ROM
memory and virtual
and flash memory
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RAM

• Random Access Memory


(RAM) chips hold programs and
data that the CPU is presently
processing
• Volatile or temporary –
contents are lost when
computer is powered off
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• Data and information can be


updated
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RAM

• Cache memory – temporary,


high-speed holding area
between the memory and CPU

• Speeds the processes of the


computer because it stores
frequently used instructions and
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data

• Additional RAM can be added


using an expansion module
called a DIMM (Dual in-line
memory module)
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RAM continued

Virtual memory
A memory management capability that allow a computer
to compensate for physical memory shortage by
temporarily transferring data from random access
memory (RAM) to disk storage.
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RAM continued

• Each location in memory has an address (a unique number)


• To access data or instructions, the computer references the addresses that
contain bytes of data

• Memory size is expressed/measured in bytes:


• kilobytes (KB )
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• megabytes (MB)
• Gigabytes (GB)
• terabytes (TB)
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ROM

• Read-only memory (ROM)


• Permanent data and instruction stored by the
manufacturer
• Non-volatile and cannot be changed
• CPU can read or retrieve data and programs
in ROM but the computer cannot change ROM
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• Contain special instructions


• Start the computer
• Access memory
• Handle keyboard input
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Flash
Memory
• Flash memory combines of the features of:
• RAM, it can be updated
• ROM, it is non-volatile

• Stored startup information/instruction


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• BIOS (basic input/output system)


• Amount/size of RAM
• Type of keyboard, mouse, and secondary storage
devices connected
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Memory

Type Use

RAM Program and data

ROM Fixed start-up instructions


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Flash Flexible start-up instructions


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Expansion Slots and Cards

Expands your system’s


capabilities:

• Graphics cards - for high quality


3D graphics
• Network Interface Cards (NIC)
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- connect devices to networks


via cables
• Wireless network cards - connect
devices to networks without
cables
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• SD cards - Expansion cards for


mobile devices
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Bus Lines / Buses (How the bit travel)

• Pathway for bits representing data and


instructions
• Connect/link parts of the CPU to each other
and various other components on the
system board
• Bus width (multilane highway)
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• Number of bits that can travel


simultaneously down a bus
• More lane/width, more efficient
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• Architecture and design are tied to the


speed and power for the computer
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Bus Lines / Bus

• Two basic categories of buses

• System buses – connects CPU to memory

• Expansion buses – connects CPU to


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other components including


expansion slots
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Expansion
Buses
Principle types:
• Universal Serial Bus (USB)
• Connects external USB devices onto the USB bus
• FireWire
• Primarily used to connect audio and video equipment to
the system board
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• PCI Express (PCIe)


• For most powerful computers
• Single dedicated path for each connected device
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Ports

Socket for connecting external


devices to the system unit
• Ports connect directly
• To the system board
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• To cards inserted into slots on


the system board
• Two Types
• Standard Ports
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• Specialized Ports
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Ports (PC)
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Ports (Laptop)
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Standard Ports

• USB
• Keyboards, mice,
printers, storage devices
• Ethernet
• High speed networking
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• HDMI – High Definition Multimedia Interface


• High definition video and audio
• Thunderbolt
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• Provides high-speed connections


• Can connect up to 7 separate devices through 1
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Specialized
Ports
• External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
(eSATA)
• High-speed connection for external secondary storage
• Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
• Connect musical instruments, e.g ?
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• Mini DisplayPort (MiniDP or mDP)


• Connection to large monitors
• VGA & DVI
• Connections to analog and digital monitors, e.g Projector
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• FireWire
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Cables

• Used to connect external devices to the


system unit via the ports
• One end of the cable is attached to the device
and the other end has a connector that is
attached to a matching connector on the port
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Making IT Work for You ~ TV
Tuners
• Using Windows Media Center as a DVR
• Install TV Tuner to connect your antenna or cable to
your computer
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Power Supply

• Computers require direct current


(DC) power converting
alternating current (AC) from
wall outlets or batteries
• Desktop computers have a
power supply unit in the system
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unit
• Laptops use AC adapters in the
system unit
• Tablets and mobile devices use
internal AC adapters
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• Smartphones can use


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Electronic Data and
Instructions
• Digital electronic signals
• In one of two states: on or off
• Recognized by computers
• Analog signals
• Continuous signal vary in strength
and quality
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• Created by voices
• Conversion must take place from
analog to digital before
processing can occur
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Numeric
Representation
• Two-state binary system consists
of only two digits called bits
• On = 1; presence charge
• Off = 0; absence charge
• Byte = 8 bits grouped together as
a unit. A byte represents a single
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character in the computer


• Hexadecimal system
• Uses 16 digits to represent
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binary numbers
(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F)
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Numeric
Representation
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Character Encoding
Character encoding standards – a unique sequence of binary representation
of a particular letter, number or special character. It is used to facilitate
communication among computers by using a common language code .

Types of Character Encoding:

• ASCII
• American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
• The most widely used coding scheme to represent data
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• Used by personal computers


• EBCDIC
• Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC)
• Used by mainframe computers
• Unicode
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• New encoding due to explosion of the Internet


• Uses 16 bits
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A Look to the Future

• Wearable computers
• Send and receive email
while jogging
• Maintain your
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personal schedule
book
• Remember the names
of people at a party
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QUIZ YOURSELF

1. This container houses most of the electrical


components for a computer system.

a. chip carrier c. system unit


b. system board d. Unicode
QUIZ YOURSELF

2. The most popular mobile device.

a. all-in-one c. smartphone
b. desktop d. ultrabook
QUIZ YOURSELF

3. The mainboard or motherboard is also known as


the:

a. computer c. mobile system


b. board processor d. system board
QUIZ YOURSELF

4. How many bytes can a 32-bit-word computer


access at one time?

a. 1 c. 8
b. 4 d. 16
QUIZ YOURSELF

5. In a personal computer system, the central


processing unit is typically contained on a
single:

a. bus c. module
b. chip d. RAM
QUIZ YOURSELF

6. This type of memory divides large programs into


parts and stores the parts on a secondary
storage device.

a. direct c. random-access
b. expanded d. virtual
QUIZ YOURSELF

7. Also known as NIC, this adapter card is used to


connect a computer to a(n):

a. AIA c. graphics
b. expansion d. network
QUIZ YOURSELF

8. This provides a pathway to connect parts of the


CPU to each other.

a. bus c. wired
b. cable d. wireless
QUIZ YOURSELF

9. The specialized port that connects musical


instruments like an electronic keyboard to a
sound card.

a. eSATA c. MIDI
b. HDMI d. Thunderbolt
QUIZ YOURSELF

10. Computers can only recognize this type of


electronic signal.

a. analog c. digital
b. bus d. maximum
MATCHING
a. Cache 1. A type of multiprocessor chip that provides two or more separate and independent CPUs.
b. Flash 2. A type of memory that is volatile or loses its contents when power is turned off.
c. Multicore 3. System board component that provides a connection point for specialized cards or circuit
boards.

d. NIC 4. Provide connection points for chips.


e. Port 5. A type of memory that improves processing by acting as a temporary high-speed holding
area between the memory and the CPU.

f. random-access 6. A type of memory that provides a combination of features of RAM and ROM.
g. Slots 7. Another name for a network adapter card.
h. Sockets 8. This bus connects the CPU to memory on the system board.
i. System 9. This port can be used to connect many USB devices to the system.
j. USB 10. A socket for external devices to connect to the system unit.
Open-Ended Questions (Page 1 of 3)

1. Describe the five most common types of personal


computers.

2. Describe system boards including sockets, chips, chip


carriers, slots, and bus lines.
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3. Discuss microprocessor components, chips, and specialty


processors.
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Open-Ended Questions (Page 2 of 3)

4. Define computer memory including RAM, ROM, and flash


memory.

5. Define expansion slots, cards, including graphics cards,


network interface cards, wireless network cards, and SD
cards.
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6. Describe bus lines, bus width, system bus, and expansion bus.
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Open-Ended Questions (Page 3 of 3)

7. Define ports including standard and specialized ports.


Give examples of each.

8. Describe power supply including power supply units and


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AC adapters.

9. Discuss electronic data and instructions.


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